The painstaking labour process (which often involved working well into the night) has in no doubt paid off - Christopher is well worth digging the big speakers out for.
Despite the self-therapy and tonal lulls, Christopher is a highly listenable affair that produces two truly outstanding moments.
‘Christopher’ is all dreamy lushness with synths that range all the way from zappy to squashy.
Ruby Suns quickly lose their nerve and hooks about halfway through Christopher, and it simply becomes a brighter, albeit favorable, take on Fight Softly's mushier innards
Even if Christopher is almost always functional, it’s almost never essential.
The few peaks of Christopher are heavily outweighed by its deep valleys and plodding middle ground, which pass by without so much as a signpost of remembrance.
The Ruby Suns have always shone brightest when they kick their shoes to the sand and run with the breeze. As Christopher shows, they’re not quite so hot on the dark stuff.
Chock full of cliches and half-baked platitudes, any strictly musical value to the album is immediately overshadowed by its unignorably feeble lyricism